On April 5 a recall petition circulator was allegedly attacked and their petitions were shredded at an undisclosed polling place during the spring election.
Speaking about the alleged attack, Government Accountability Board (GAB) executive director Kevin Kennedy issued a brief statement:
“One incident that was brought to our attention involved physical violence against a petitioner and the destruction of the petitions themselves,” state government accountability board executive director Kevin Kennedy revealed during a packed, Wednesday news conference. Kennedy cited the incident as he noted the significant role recall signature gathering played at polling places on election day.
“We assume that will be handled appropriately by local law enforcement.”
This isn’t the first act of physical violence against individuals gathering signatures in support of the various efforts to recall the “Republican 8,” as I’ve previously noted.
But clearly union supporters are “thugs” and “goons” according to so many on the right, while those some folks will no doubt defend those attacked individuals gathering signatures in support of recalling Republican State Senators as “patriots” and “heroes.”
Violence: Stop it before it multiplies.
This thug just committed a federal offence – violation of civil rights.
This should be communicated immediately to:
1.
US Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Civil Rights Division
Criminal Section – PHB
Washington, DC 20530
2.
Electronically to Milwaukee branch of FBI
http://www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/fo.htm
3. Cc to
Office of the United States Attorney
Eastern District of Wisconsin
517 E Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 530
Milwaukee, WI 53202-4580
Odd when a bunch of union thugs attacked people in Merrill not a peep from this site, but now that there is a supposed attack against a union supporter the GAB and this blog start acting like chickenlittles.
“at an undisclosed polling place during the spring election.”
That’s interesting because if that true, the recall petiton gatherer would be violating state election law.
I believe the GAB ruled that it was ok to gather signatures for recalls at polling places in the spring.
I concede when I’m wrong:
http://gab.wi.gov/node/1689
It appears that as long as no statements were made regarding candidates on the ballot were made the activities were permitted.
Its a confusing and tricky subject and ruling….
Yeah, it wasn’t a very well-publicized ruling by the GAB….in fact, I almost missed it when I read accounts about the folks gathering signatures at polling places.
They had to be 100 ft from the entrance of the polling place and here in Green Bay there are a couple of incidents be investigated where union people were not following the rule.
100 ft is the state law, several counties have more restricitve prohibitions.